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Potential world-beating tuna caught
MICHAEL FIELD
Last updated 15:26 20/02/2014
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MONSTER FISH: Donna Pascoe with the tuna she caught today.

An Auckland woman has caught a potentially world record sized Pacific bluefin tuna today.

Donna Pascoe had a nearly five-hour struggle to land the 411kg bluefin (Thunnus orientalis), fishing off a charter boat, Gladator, out of Houhora in the far north.

The catch board on the wharf records says she was using a 60kg line.

Pascoe's Facebook suggests she is something of a skilled angler having last year taken and landed a couple of blue marlin, one weighing in at 243.5kg.

Any record claim has to be certified by the International Game Fish Association.

It is currently working on verifying what was to have been a world record Pacific bluefin catch of 352.5kg caught by angler Kevin Baker off Greymouth last September. Baker had wanted to tag and release but when they realised the size of the catch, they landed it.

The previous record was 332kg, although far bigger but uncertified bluefin qwew caught in earlier times.

The Royal Forest and Bird best fish guide gives a red "worst choice" sticker for Pacific bluefin.






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紐女子釣獲4百餘公斤金槍魚
中廣新聞網中廣新聞網 – 2015年1月5日 下午3:30

紐西蘭北島一位女子，日前釣到一條重達4百多公斤重的藍鰭金槍魚，很可能打破了世界紀錄。



這位56歲的女子冬娜，當初是經過4小時11分的艱苦對抗之後，終於用起錨機把大魚拖到船上。



這條太平洋藍鰭金槍魚，體重重達411.6公斤，體型幾乎是小象的兩倍，目前正在等待國際釣魚 協會的認證， 以宣布自己打破了世界紀錄。




"Pacific bluefin tuna is a very large, highly migratory species that can move thousands of kilometres in a year," they say.

Recreationally caught bluefin is prohibited from commercial sale.


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